CHAPTER IV. 



GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF TREES IN NORWAY. 



IN 1876 there was published a valuable report on The 

 Kingdom of Norway and its People, by Dr. O. J. Broch, 

 a distinguished statistician of European reputation, and 

 President of the Norwegian Commission for the Interna- 

 tional Exhibition in Paris in 1878, in which was embodied 

 a sketch of the vegetable products of Norway, including 

 forest trees. And in 1879 there was published as a con- 

 tribution to the jubilee connected with the 400th anni- 

 versary of the founding of the University of Copenhagen, 

 A Report on the Distribution of Plants in Norway, by Dr. 

 F. C. Schuebeler, Professor of Botany in the University of 

 Christiania, in which is supplied much additional informa- 

 tion in regard to forest trees, indigenous or cultivated, in 

 Norway, with plates illustrative of the appearance of 

 these and of the form and venation of their leaves. There 

 are given with this report, charts illustrative of the moun- 

 tainous region of the country ; of the coast lands of 

 northern Norway ; of the temperature throughout Europe 

 on 1st January, and in the month of July ; of the lines of 

 minimum temperature throughout north-eastern Europe ; 

 of rainfall ; of the humidity ; and of the geological strata 

 superimposed on the primitive rocks. And in the report 

 is embodied the longitude and latitude of the most 

 northern localities in Norway in which have been ob- 

 served the indigenous growth, or cultivation, or flowering, 

 or fruiting it being specified which it is of well-nigh 

 4000 different plants found there. Along with this there 

 was issued a large map of the kingdom of Norway in four 

 sheets, illustrative of the same, together with a corres- 



